Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A masked group broke into the jail at Carrollton, Mississippi, took a Black man who was being held there, and lynched him, according to a Springfield Weekly Republican editorial published in March 1886. The editorial places the killing a few weeks before publication. The man is not named in the account. The editorial's source is the paper itself, not the sheriff or jailer, and it gives no account of how the jail staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.